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Summary

This specimen has superb color and an amazing 3-dimensional arrangement of the aquamarines upon the contrasting schorls. The large aquamarine is doubly-terminated and 9.5 x 2.9 x 2.7 cm in size. It graces the back or the front of this specimen depending on how you view it. From one side, you have a shocking cluster of robust, very gemmy aquamarines hanging off the schorl backdrop, featuring this largest doubly-terminated crystal in the middle. From the other display angle of view, you have what looks like a totally different, more elegant specimen, featuring several robust aquamarine tips poking up over hills of schorl (and with the forest of accenting aquamarines below, like trees on a slope). Overall, this has some of the most intense, deep blue color I have seen before in an Erongo specimen, with a translucent and deeply colored body and a gemmy termination atop. The intense color, and large size, combined with lustre and a contrasting schorl association, all conspire to make this a special pocket considered by those who saw them recently at the 2009 Denver show to be among the best aquamarine finds here in about a decade of quite sporadic aquamarine mining. With its unique aesthetics and schorl contrast, this is a major display quality, cabinet aquamarine that is different then anything that ever came out of Brazil or Pakistan.

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